… there was shot in the video that we didn’t keep of the young kid with the gun in his mouth …

… certain people would let us show it …

… I understand, ya know …

… I understand why they don’t want teenagers with guns in their mouths in front of a classroom …

… I understand …

… but, uh, that’s what happened … I’m not making it up, ya know …

… and I’m sorry that there is a reason to make this video or to write that song or a song about that …

… it shouldn’t have happened …

[…]

… I’m sorry that people had to watch it so many times …

Eddie Vedder Spoke – Bio

Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson)Born December 23, 1964American musician, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the grunge band Pearl Jam, with whom he performs lead vocals and is one of three guitarists. He is known for his powerful baritone vocals.

Jeremy Spoke – Pearl Jam – Note

“Jeremy” [ … ] takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who shot himself in front of his English classmates on the morning of January 8, 1991.

In a 2009 interview, [Eddie] Vedder said that he felt “the need to take that small article and make something of it—to give that action, to give it reaction, to give it more importance.”